It's Wednesday, September 6, 2023.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

We've been experiencing such a transformation in ethics, and indeed a transformation

of worldview in a rapidly secularizing and liberalizing Western civilization that's

hard to keep up.

And it's also hard to know just how evenly this civilization is moving in a more secular

and more left-ward direction.

But over time, it has been clear that it is the gender and sexuality issues that are

the clearest indicator and perhaps also the most powerful engines of that revolution in

a more secular and more progressivist or more liberal direction.

But one of the things we've had to consider as Christians is whether or not there are

any limits to just how far that revolution can go.

Now when you're looking at the big picture, the fact is that it's clear this is a still

unfolding revolution.

But it's also clear that there are certain limitations at least right now, certain cultural,

moral, even ideological limitations right now that are causing a bit of a hiccup in the

inevitable progress, at least as the progressives see it, of society moving more leftward on

these issues.

The revolution and sexuality and gender moving into ever more radical directions.

The big issue here, of course, is the T and LGBTQ.

The transgender issue or the gender issue in particular, the intersection of, say, feminism

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